ABSTRACT
The conclusion of this book lies outside its pages, in the institutions of higher education. It is not so much a matter of a prescription or recipe for the future as of attitude and educational principle. The book is not a specialist contribution to some well-established debate; it is the attempt to rethink the topic of education in the liberal arts, its value to a democratic society, and its function in the training of articulate human beings, literate in the ways of texts and language.
